Three of New York City’s top indie theatre companies, Boomerang Theatre Company, Flux Theatre Ensemble, and Gideon Productions, have joined forces to form the BFG Collective, which will hold a six-month-long residency at Long Island City’s The Secret Theatre. Productions will include Mac Rogers’ sci-fi epic The Honeycomb Trilogy, Boomerang Theatre Company’s revival of Tom Stoppard’s The Real Thing, William Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, and the New York premiere of Melissa Gawlowski’s Spring Tides, and Flux Theatre Ensemble’s world premiere of August Schulenburg’s new play, Deinde.
Advance Man
Part 1 of The Honeycomb Trilogy
January 12-January 29
Written by Mac Rogers
Directed by JorDana Williams
Presented by Gideon Productions
Advance Man centers on the family of Bill Cooke, the leader of a group of astronauts who have returned from the first manned mission to Mars bearing secrets and illicit cargo that could forever alter not only their lives, but all of humanity.
Much Ado About Nothing
March 1-18
Written by William Shakespeare
Directed by Daniel Talbott
Boomerang’s critically acclaimed summertime hit returns with more barbed wit and romantic shenanigans! When returning soldiers come home from war, the real battles begin! Beatrice loves and hates Benedick at the same time, returning his amour with each stinging put down and quip. Benedick loves the game when he's winning, and despises Beatrice when he's not. Using a trunk of costumes and more flowers than you can count, hearts will be won, lost and won again all for the glory of true love...and who can get the last word in.
The Real Thing
March 3-24
Written by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Cailin Heffernan
Presented by Boomerang Theatre Company
Tom Stoppard's award-winning romantic dramedy receives an intimate Indie Theatre revival. Come for the blazing Stoppard wit...and see the show as you have never seen it before.
Spring Tides
March 9-25
Written by Melissa Gawlowski
Directed by Jeff Woodbridge
Presented by Boomerang Theatre Company
Jane, newly pregnant, escapes onto a beach through a closet door and finds a strangely familiar world under attack. As she, a greaser, and a Spanish nun battle monsters and brandish swords and stones, the line between real and imaginary blurs, and to save them all, Jane will have to make the decision of her life.
Blast Radius
Part 2 of The Honeycomb Trilogy
March 29-April 15
Written by Mac Rogers
Directed by JorDana Williams
Presented by Gideon Productions
BLAST RADIUS follows a sister and brother at mortal odds in an Earth radically changed by years of alien occupation. The human insurgency finally has a weapon to turn the tide - at a terrible cost. The conquering alien race has found a chilling solution to end human resistance for good.
Deinde
April 28-May 12
Written by August Schulenburg
Directed by Heather Cohn
Presented by Flux Theatre Ensemble
In the not-too-distant future, the pressure to cure a global pandemic spurs the creation of DEINDE, a device that allows a team of quantum biologists to think directly into a powerful computer. At first, they use this prosthetic for the mind under strict rules of engagement, but soon noble ideals and personal passions lead a few to break the rules. They discover that DEINDE’s power is far greater than anyone first imagined, and their world spins out of control, raising questions of morality, consciousness, and what it means to be human in an age of rapid technological change.
